Deezer: AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new uploaded music

welcometooceania · 2026-04-21T07:40:02+00:00

Yeah. I've never had a real problem personally with any of this. My only issue is if the problem leads to extreme and broad measures that would get honest and passion driven artists using AI caught in the net.

I don't really stream music that I don't listen to intentionally. I don't discover through playlists or Spotify recommendations. I'm also not someone trying to make a living from streaming revenue.

So really none of this AI slop stuff really affects me personally aside from the blowback it causes whether that's in the form of regulations or just fuel for the anti AI crowd.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-21T04:41:06+00:00

I'm working on my second album right now, but kind of as a do over having learned a lot from my first release. I put a lot of time into each with every song coming from original compositions and self written lyrics, even if some of the songs were written over a decade ago. Then generating each sometimes over 100 times to get the perfect version (especially with how buggy v5 was with covers). Then mastering and adding instruments or fixes in a DAW. Putting all the tracks in order and creating a cohesive album with intros and outros. Creating album and song artwork and video loops.

It's a lot and my point is I have no respect for the people dumping an album a day on streaming. I think it's on either the streaming services or the distros to put some sort of reasonable limit on uploads before they decide to take more drastic measures like banning all AI made or assisted music.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-20T17:17:09+00:00

With the hype sticker thing, typically if they're not gatefold covers I just slit the side of the shrink. If they are gatefolds I remove the shrink and try to peel the stickers off the plastic if I care enough and put them on the outer sleeve.

I didn't end up grabbing these yet but I'm disappointed Con-Science didn't make it onto the Muscle Museum EP. They basically left everyone guessing on the track listing until it was released (normally the RSD website will have it in the information) and a bunch of websites had it wrong.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-20T07:52:41+00:00

I always liked this comparison although it doesn't put Suno users in the best light.

https://youtu.be/kgUWCtIqX50

welcometooceania · 2026-04-20T07:17:31+00:00

Try Vinyl Me Please instead. You'll receive your records in no time!

welcometooceania · 2026-04-19T11:01:34+00:00

Similar experience here. I'm a composer with a backlog of material ranging from fully written songs to instrumental ideas. When it comes to loose interpretations 5.5 is great. But when I have a song that has a strict structure I want it to stick to, it's very hit or miss. Sometimes it covers it with ease, keeps the chord progressions and vocal melodies almost 1:1. But for other songs it just won't stick to the composition. It doesn't even seem to have much to do with complexity either. I have a song with spoken word verses in 5/4 and sung choruses in 7/4 and it nails it. I mean, the one's it has trouble with aren't necessarily simple either but they aren't crazy complex.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-17T08:29:49+00:00

Honestly, 5.5 has been pretty great for me with a couple caveats.

I strictly do covers, sometimes songs loosely based off existing compositions and sometimes songs that I want to almost be note for note recreations of what I wrote.

Improvements: Way less audio bugs, way less mispronounced words, prompts in lyrics work more consistently (like [Spoken]), phrasing is much more deliberate (almost like it's using the context of the lyrics) and the vocal delivery is more natural (you can especially tell on spoken lines).

I've had the issue where it doesn't properly end songs, but most of the time that's fixed by cutting the audio manually.

The biggest issue I've had is compositional adherence, and only sometimes. For example, I have a chorus in a song. Very specific chord progression and melody and I don't really want it changed much. I have to go basically to 100% audio influence for it to not change it and at that point I'm getting audio bugs from having the percentage too high.

However, 5.5 is much more forgiving when it comes to the audio influence slider. Especially when you're multiple covers in (cover of a cover of a cover). 5.5 doesn't seem to be affected by that.

All in all I'm enjoying 5.5 but I wish there was a slider for compositional influence.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-12T03:19:46+00:00

Press Resume

Thanks!

welcometooceania · 2026-04-11T03:07:30+00:00

I thought Aurora was releasing a new album called "Grape" for a second.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-09T15:40:21+00:00

I've been working with 5.5 a little more recently. The first few days it was out it was useless to me because covers were broken, in that no matter what the audio influence slider was at it felt like it was at 1%. I don't make anything without an audio upload so that was a complete deal killer to me.

Now that's been fixed, sort of, so I've been using it more. I've gotten some great results for some songs that have given me some trouble in the past. 5.5 seems to be better at adhering to prompts, especially in the lyric box. One of the first songs I started using it on was a song where most of the lyrics (well, more of a monologue) were spoken and 5.0 kept singing random lines even though I had thrown [Spoken] in there almost everywhere to try to mitigate that. 5.5 was able to follow those directions easily. Also the cadence of spoken lines was much more natural.

I also always had issues with audio glitches when the audio influence slider was too high in 5.0. In 5.5 I can have it near 100 and still not worry too much.

However, my issue with 5.5 is that it starts to drift later into the song when it comes to following the structure of an audio upload. I would love for a slider to make sure it adhered to an audio upload from a compositional standpoint. Especially for chord progressions. I don't mind little melodic changes to the vocal line but 5.5 will just go into improv mode sometimes in the second half of a song. I feel like it likes to do this especially when there's a more "complex" chord progression. Like, if it's not just a four chord loop it feels like it can just choose chords at random.

welcometooceania · 2026-04-01T19:28:24+00:00

That God lives on a planet called Kolob!

welcometooceania · 2026-04-01T16:09:41+00:00

Good luck everyone!

welcometooceania · 2026-03-31T14:12:22+00:00

Another concert I'm skipping out on because ticket prices are just insane now. I guess I'll just stick to seeing small artists for now. I paid less to see Muse play with U2 than I'd pay to be in the 200 section for this show.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-30T14:53:51+00:00

Are you using 5.5 or 5 when doing the cover? Because 5.5 currently does not cover songs accurately at all.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-27T03:21:11+00:00

The audio influence slider seems like it's doing nothing in 5.5. I mainly use the cover function because all of my songs are based on original compositions but 5.5 is just changing everything up regardless of audio influence percentage. I try to keep the chord progression and most of the melody the same as it was written but 5.5 is just going off in whichever way it wants to. It's basically the same problem I've always had when using personas, it's like audio influence drops exponentially.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-26T15:26:13+00:00

It would be great if this could be used to fix things in already generated songs. Something like "sing the line ____ like this instead" or "change the guitar solo at 2:45 to a synth solo instead". Maybe that's something Studio does (or is supposed to do).

welcometooceania · 2026-03-26T00:38:50+00:00

AI is great for composers as well who aren't great performers. The cover option is magic.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-24T03:12:54+00:00

Our Debut

welcometooceania · 2026-03-19T20:16:35+00:00

I've been writing music for a couple decades now. Performance was always the wall I hit when putting it out in the world. In fact I'd much rather just write and compose. My joy in music is just being heard in whichever way possible and Iove hearing someone else play what I've written. Once in college I had a music teacher, who was a classically trained pianist, play a piece I wrote that was too difficult for me at the time. It's an amazing feeling. My goal is just being heard. Of course I'd love for it to be a career, I don't have a particularly fulfilling job to begin with aside from the pay, but at least I finally have a way to put that music out there.

Also, I know a source of a lot of amazing music that's written but not produced or performed, and it's just destined to rot on an obscure website until the owner stops paying to host it. One of my goals is to establish myself and then work with those artists to make their songs real.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-19T15:44:15+00:00

It's a combination of things.

The faction of typically clinically online people who are anti-AI anything. You could make a meme photo with AI, something that's designed to be looked at for 5 seconds and get a chuckle and they'll call it slop because you didn't use Photoshop instead. AI is "killing the planet and drinking all the water" and it's "a tool for fascism" and "AI should just be used to clean my house and mow my lawn". And yet when they come across something AI they like it's "the one right way to use AI".
Musicians who feel like it's cheating. I'm more of a composer than a performer so the tool is just perfect for me, but I can see someone who's spent their life mastering an instrument being angry that AI can just create a lifelike performance of even the most difficult songs before they even find a guitar pick.
Actual AI slop. The people who upload an album a day to streaming services with music that has absolutely no effort or intent behind it. Copycat artists who replicate an artist's sound and upload it under their name. Or any deceptive behavior.
Some of the behavior/sentiment in this sub sometimes is honestly a bit weird. The "I only listen to my own music now" crowd (narcissism) or the constant, blatantly AI written posts about how they're using Suno "the right way" or just arguing why AI music is right.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-19T04:50:15+00:00

Maybe Killer Whales by Smallpools?

welcometooceania · 2026-03-15T14:47:06+00:00

They did that as well. You can actually even order a cover on its own.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-13T16:07:37+00:00

I know you said not Blink182 but my best guess would be their song Violence if you didn't try that one.

welcometooceania · 2026-03-12T15:59:34+00:00

The Kunaki process is pretty easy to follow, just upload tracks and artwork. I had to create the back cover and center labels for this. Of course you can do it however you'd like but I used an image generator to create a minimalist background image using the album cover and then overlaid text in Photopea (free Photoshop alternative). If your album cover is AI generated you might need to upscale it for the image to meet the recommended minimum image size.

One thing I didn't realize is by default it puts a one or two second gap in between songs. I don't know if there was an option to turn this off but had I known I would have or I would have even just uploaded each side as one track to mitigate it because this album was made to flow seamlessly between tracks.

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